Great for macOS and browser extensions
June 11, 2018
Great for macOS and browser extensions
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Overall Satisfaction with Paddle
We use Paddle in our browser extensions to provide in-app purchase functionality. We also use Paddle and DevMate integration to sell licenses for our macOS application. It handles trials, as well as blocking the app usage if the user didn’t provide a license. We also use Paddle for in-app analytics for our Mac App Store app to collect user behavior data.
- macOS application licensing/trials
- JavaScript-based purchase page for web
- Webhooks
- Paddle support can be better
- Paddle documentation lacks some important information
- Mac analytics is very basic and limited
- Paddle takes only 5% of sales, in comparison to 30% as Apple does.
- We added browser extension in-app purchases thanks to Paddle, which now generate our revenue.
- Stripe
We tried using Stripe before Paddle, but it was a pain integrating it and it lacked the licensing. Paddle allows us just to add a payment button and don’t ever think about payment methods, we don’t have to make a separate button for card payments and another one for PayPal. Paddle does all this in their checkout process.